Aerial view of Las Vegas and Union Pacific Railroad yards.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from back of photo: "[Identified by Dave Coons as LV Valley w/UPRR yards in Foreground. Late 1920s?] [Kim Geary - Roberts IDs ca 1931. EP 6-21-84]."
A black and white portrait of the Union Pacific Railroad President, William Martin Jeffers. This photo was taken from a time capsule in the cornerstone of the Union Pacific Railroad station located in Las Vegas, Nevada. The time capsule was placed there in 1940 and was later retrieved when the building was demolished around 1970.
From Union Pacific Railroad Collection (MS-00397). The scales are noted in the drawing. Near the bottom it says, "Gilbert Stanley Underwood And Co. Architects & Engineers. Miscellaneous Details. A Club House For The Union Pacific System, Caliente, Nevada."